Author Archives: Markus

I trust in You

This week is about fear and trust. Be encouraged.

Hi our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week!!

One late afternoon I decided to go for a quick walk around the block to just get a few steps in. Just by doing that I ran into multiple neighbor friends and some strangers. I got into good conversations with all of them and I don’t even know how an hour went by and I just walked one lap. Its amazing how easily to get into conversation and connect with people. The blue angles doing their airshow over the city was a great conversation starter. We want to encourage you to also walk around your area and connect with the people there. Start a conversation with a simple topic that is relevant right now (besides politics since that can be very divisive). Watch how your connections and relationships in the neighborhood grow just by doing something simple like this.

And 2 more things at the end about the video: 1. Pray and ask yourself where you have subconsciously allowed fear into your life and made decisions out of fear. 2. Give this fear to God and express your trust in Him in a completely new way no matter what circumstance!

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Gospel Carriers: Wycliffe, Luther and Tyndale

This week we are looking a 3 Gospel Carriers who had a huge influence on how you read the bible today. Be encouraged!

Hi our friend

How was your week?

This week San Francisco got hit with a heat wave for our San Francisco summer (our summer is September October). According to Alexa we got one day temperatures up to 98 degrees. But that didn’t stop us from having our small group, a dinner with neighbors and to have our neighbor brunch. No matter if its hot or cold we are all in need of community in every season.  We want to encourage you to keep building community in the neighborhood you live in!!

We hope you were inspired by the video! Don’t forget to ask yourself the following questions: Do you have talents in translating languages ​​and does God want to use you to translate the Bible into languages ​​that it doesn’t yet exist in? Who can you encourage who you know and who is good with languages ​​to help translate the Bible? Who can you support who translates the Bible, financially or in other ways? Pray about it!!

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

 

Righteousness

This weeks video blog is about righteousness. Be inspired and encouraged!

Hi our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week!!

We love our church in San Francisco and have been part of it for 16 years. Last Sunday our church celebrated the 40th anniversary. Its amazing to see how God used it to empower, encourage and build up people for a long time. Even with many moves, challenging times, pastor changes and other circumstances the church kept going. I want to encourage you with that to be perseverant. Keep going in the things God called you to do and don’t give up in times of challenge.

And 2 more things at the end about the video: 1. Read Romans 4 and 5 and let God encourage you through them. 2. Let us ask God to show us where we still try to prove ourselves instead of leaning into his grace!

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

 

Gospel Carriers: St Francis

This weeks Gospel Carrier is St Francis, who San Francisco is named after. Be encouraged by this wonderful man of God.

https://youtu.be/-XmO1_-Jf0k

Hi our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week!!

We are out so there is no update for the week but next week we will have one again!

We hope you got inspired by St Francis. Let us spend some time to look into the teachings of Jesus and see what we can learn from them and then let’s start living them out through our lives!

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Eternal perspective

This weeks video blog is about perspective, specifically eternal perspective. Be inspired and encouraged!

https://youtu.be/gLSs9ALf3-8

Hi our friend

Wow this week was a busy one but a wonderful one too. We got to spend time with many different people for birthdays, meetings, small groups or meals. It’s a blessing to be part of so many different communities. All of us need community! If you dont have a community ask God to guide you to one that you can be part of!

And one last thing at the end about the video: Reflect on the things you are doing and ask yourself which of those have an eternal perspective vs short term. Let us ask Jesus to help us to get his perspective for every part of our life!

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb